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GIVEAWAY: “Milk Cow Kitchen, Comin’ Up Roses”

Posted onDecember 13, 2016byMaryJane

Thank you for dropping by my Raising Jane Journal to participate in my giveaways! We’ve chosen a winner for this giveaway already (click here for details), but don’t be afraid to leave a comment anyway. I love reading them. And stay tuned for more great MaryJanesFarm giveaways.

For a chance to win a free copy of my Milk Cow Kitchen book, tell me about the farmgirl you would gift it to who either has a milk cow or dreams of having one in the comments below. I’ll toss your name into a hat and draw a lucky winner sometime mid-February.

My book gives you how-to details for keeping a pet milk cow on your suburban half acre, a backyard lot in town … or at least, it’ll help fuel your fantasy of a someday cow grazing outside your kitchen window. Milk cow fantasy aside, my book is chock full of recipes using dairy—75 to be exact—along with 15 step-by-step cheese-making recipes.

Stay tuned for more magazine-related giveaways. If you’re not yet a subscriber to my magazine, MaryJanesFarm, subscribe here for $19.95/year.

The farmgirl I would give it to dreams of a country life. A garden, chickens and a milk cow. She loves making things from scratch and living and communing with nature. Thanks for the chance to win Mary Jane! 🙂

My daughter and her husband, newly married in April, are looking for a house with lots of land so that they can have farm animals. As a child, she helped her dad with the dairy farm we co-owned. She fell in love with the cows and also the bull we had. She even named him (Devon)! They are also looking to have a few sheep so that, in her words, “we can raise them, shear them, make yarn, and knit something for someone,” lol. I would love to give this book to them to get them headed in the right direction 🙂

I would give it to our library, we live in a small rural town. Many people have backyard farms & neighbors are often customers for milk, eggs, produce etc. The idea of permaculture is popular here. I think this book would be enjoyed.

I would give it to my good friend who lives in the country and already does much to show she has the soul of a farm girl. She bakes her own bread. She teaches Tai chai and mindfulness parenting. She sews, cooks and puts in a garden. I can see her having a milk cow.

My daughter moved to Pennsylvania last year to live on a dairy farm with her future husband. He has been a dairy farmer all his life. She is very happy and will always continue to live on a dairy farm from this day forward. She says her bucket list is complete. Nothing like this mom. The best place to be. My husband and I have visited them several times and she sure is right. We have never seen her so happy. This book would make a great gift for her. Thank you for the opportunity.

We make ricotta, cream fraiche, and yogurt weekly and love cows milk. I can remember buying a gallon from a neighbor each week and carefully separating the cream from the milk so we would have the thick, yellow clotted cream to have on strawberries from our garden. Yum. Miss it now as many home cowherds (this is a person who tends cows) can no longer sell raw milk off their farms in the county where I live. We still use a lot of milk and tonight it is in our mashed potatoes for dinner, with a dollop of cream, for sure

I would love this for myself. I grew up surrounded by several cattle farms that edged our property! My sisters and I would love the calves and would see how close we could get to the bull without it spying us!

To my Granddaughter Natalie who insists we need a American Miniature Jersey! She is 12 and we have Nubian dairy goats! Do you think we should add ?? You just never know I’m thinkin more yummy cheese and Mmmm yummy real clotted cream! Convince me!~ hee hee! 🙂 😉

We had a milk cow when I was in my teens and I loved it! I live in town now but would love to read this book. I also have a friend that we “farm-sit” for once in awhile which gives me the treat to get to milk again. I would “share” this book with her. =)

I would share the book with my best friend Marissa. She already has a Jersey named Madeline that she milks. “Maddie” is pregnant and I’m wishfully thinking that her babe will be mine, as we are moving to our own farm in two weeks. My husband isn’t convinced yet that its the right time for a cow but maybe in a year when the calf is ready to be weaned I can convince him otherwise.

I will admit that I would like it for myself. We, my parents and I, live on a farm together. We raise our own chickens and turkeys. We have also raised pigs and cows for meat. My mother milked a cow when I was a little girl. We have a feed store and sell raw milk from a licensed farmer. As much milk as my dad drinks he thinks we should get a milk cow.

I have been married to a farmer for 43 years. We used to milk Holstein cows on our small farm of 80 acres and retired from milking cows a few years ago. We have a small herd of Gelveigh Beef cows, all females, that are wonderful mothers. Some of the beef cows have too much milk that could be used in cheese production. It has been a dream of mine for several years to learn how to make cheese. The recipes would help me make this wish come true. I am also retired and would love to start a business here on our farm.

The farm girl I would give it to longs for a simpler time and place of her childhood. Growing up on a dairy farm where meals were served up with freshly churned butter and rich cream adorned hot
breakfast cereals. Homemade ice cream was one of the best things about summer😊.

This would be for me. I lived on a farm as a young girl and have memories of many of the things my mom and dad did – had chickens (fresh eggs), pigs, cows for milking, etc. I was very young when they split up, but I carry the memories with me and practice my country style living the best I can in the city. I love your magazine. Thanks!

I keep looking at your Milk Cow Kitchen book and dream of the day I will have a milk cow of my own. I limited my farm dream to chickens, goats, dogs and cats. Did not know how I could include a cow in that dream until I saw your book description. My dining room is “dressed” in cow. I want to be a pampered, content, cow in my next life. Would love the book for me!

I would give the book to my daughter Anna. She will be 19 in March and she loves farm life and animals. We have a small farm with 2 cows and 2 calves, 2 goats that she showed for FFA and the buyer gave them back to her. Of course she wouldn’t resale them! She wants chickens now and wants a dairy goat and milk cow in the future. She also has 1 horse (Sugar) and a miniature mule (Otis) who is blind in one eye. We subscribe to your magazine and love it. We also have purchased your Glamping book.
So yes a vintage camper is on my daughter’s want list also. She has a 1967 Chevy pick-up (her 16th birthday present) that she would pull camper with.
Thanks for opportunity to win the Milk Cow Kitchen Book!!!

I would enjoy this lovely book myself as I’ve always dreamed about having a lovely long haired highland cow. I share my library with everyone who is interested though and this book would make a very welcome edition to us all!

I would love the book myself, the only Mary Jane book I don’t yet own… But, if I have to share 😉 I would give to my friend Darlene, she’s had cows as long as I’ve known her, is definitely a Farm girl and a very sweet lady!

The farmgirl I would give this book to is my youngest daughter. As the mother of 4, she inspires me everyday, managing a farm with her Farrier husband and homeschooling her children(ages 2 – 7). They own a miniature Jersey cow, that she milks every morning. She makes yogurt, cheese, butter, and ice cream. It’s such fun to watch them living their dream.

As much as I would love the book for myself (selfish much?), one of my besties recently added a milk cow to her farm family… she could really use the book. As a side note, I’m quite certain some of the cheese and butter made from recipes in the book will be shared with one of her besties… especially if that bestie gifts her with such a fab book!

The farm girl I would give it to is just starting out she has a few chickens and a milk cow and some guineas. She’s still learning all the ins and outs and having a blast ! Thanks for the chance to win.

My good friend always wanted a farm but could never afford one. She worked at a local goat farm and the owner would give her goat milk which helped with the food bill. She is a farm girl by heart. She is a Mennonite and would love to read Milk Cow.

All proceeds (minus shipping and packing) will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Here’s how:

MaryJane will post a photo of the prop and its cost here along with a few details as to its condition. The first person to call the farm and talk with Brian, 208-882-6819, becomes the new owner of a little bit of herstory. Shipping will be either USPS or UPS, our choice. No returns.